Friday, July 18, 2008

Shee-oot, how do you do these Game Thread thingies again? Oh, yeah, it's....

Hiroki Kuroda (5-6, 3.43) vs Doug Davis (3-4, 3.80).

COMMENTS: First place is on the line tonight as the Dodgers face the Snakes at Chase Field, with Arizona a mere one game ahead of our sub-.500 Dodgers. With everyone except Russell Martin having experienced a four-day vacation, I expect the old guys to come back less creaky and the young guys to return more hungry. Of course, we've only beat the Diamondbacks one time all year long (we are 1-4 and winless at Chase this year). Kuroda, who has been awesome since returning from the DL, will keep us in the game; the question is if our bats will step it up too. Come on, Donny M! Work your mojo magic!

Dodgers scored three in the first inning and it looked like the rout was on. But Kuroda promptly coughed up four in the bottom of the first—with a should-be error by Kent and an honest-to-goodness error by Andruw—and it was clear tonight would not be a pitchers' duel.

D'backs made it 6-3 in the second but the Dodgers have powered back with two (!) home runs by Nomar and one by Kent. 7-7 in the 8th.